Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 5

• Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

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  Men, Long, Care

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XXII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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  Life, Happiness, Money

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• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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  Passion, Character, Night

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• Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

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  Might, Persons, Possessed

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• No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

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  Happy Life, Reflection, Roots

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• It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

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  Stars, Latin, History

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• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

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  Positive, Art, Philosophy

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• If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

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  Wisdom, Restriction, Should

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• The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

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  Mind, Genius, Rust

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• A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

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  Happiness, Character, Guarantees

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• A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

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  Taken, Men, Debt

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• It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

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  Learning, Surprising, Whole

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• Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

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  Effort, Mind, Relaxation

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• Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

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  Memories, Past, Evil

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• Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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  Philosophical, Punishment, Guilt

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• To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

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  Laughter, Adversity, Men

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• Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

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  Memories, Kindness, Remembrance

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• We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

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  Life, Motivational, Procrastination

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• It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

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  Positivity, Mind, Stoicism

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• The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

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  Way, Goodness, Helpfulness

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• You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

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  Inspirational, Appreciation, Character

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

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  God, Void, Turns

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• We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

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  Life, Fashion, Reason

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• Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

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  Wicked, Demand, Equal

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